Ryan started at a very young age taking apart small household items, intrigued with the mechanics of anything that had moving parts. Regardless if anything ran or not they were disassembled and re-assembled many times. He soon graduated to larger things like televisions, appliances and then cars. As Ryan was growing up his grandfather
Ryan started at a very young age taking apart small household items, intrigued with the mechanics of anything that had moving parts. Regardless if anything ran or not they were disassembled and re-assembled many times. He soon graduated to larger things like televisions, appliances and then cars. As Ryan was growing up his grandfather had acres full of a little boys dream’s… broken pieces of metal in the form of cars, trucks, lawnmowers and even an old school bus. Ryan was quickly drawn to things with motors, for the lawn or the road it didn’t really matter other than it too was begging to be taken apart. In that yard full of metal he found cars, a Volkswagen dune buggy to be exact. The VW belonged to his uncle and was in need of repair. Watching and occasionally getting to help spawned his enthusiasm for automobiles. As time went on Ryan had many opportunities to work on friends cars and sometimes family members would allow him to work on their vehicles as well.
In 1997 Ryan meet his soon to be wife Jennifer. Jennifer was driving a convertible mustang at the time and again Ryan found something he could take apart and put back together, not having any money they always tried to fix everything themselves and so Ryan learned about automotive computers, electrical and a whole lot about how patient his new found love Jennifer really is.
Wanting a change of pace from southern California they headed to Arizona were Ryan was given his first chance at mechanics as a profession, he quickly found this was a natural career path for him. A few moves and two children later both Ryan and Jennifer starting thinking, what about owning an automotive repair shop of their own? This brought up a whole new set of thoughts about where would be the right town for raising a family and starting a new chapter in their lives as entrepreneurs. They started the search and quickly found the draw of Oregon to be very desirable they moved to Lincoln City and found the Oregon coast to be a bit unforgiving when it comes to the need for sunlight, the perfect location presented itself by accident after a road trip to southern Oregon, Jennifer was searching on the internet for Jobs and homes to rent and stumbled across a listing for a building for sale in a nice close nit community called Talent where a small dream became a reality…
Miles Automotive was opened October 8, 2012!
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